AT THE EFFICIENCY LIMIT? “It may be that Rubisco is as good as it can get; as Tcherkez et al. note “all ribulose bisphosphate carboxylases may be near perfectly optimized”. Such examples as Rubisco are a useful reminder of some under-appreciated realities: even what appears to be disastrously maladaptive – who, after all would design an enzyme that is disabled by the very substance (oxygen) it helps to produce? – may still be as good as is possible.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022